To journey
אָרַחStrong’s H0732arach (a-rach)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Arach is the Hebrew word usually translated “who was traveling”, “traveler” and “travels”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?”
Meaning
- To wander, journey, go, keep company with(Qal)
How it's translated
- who was traveling 1
- for the traveler 1
- and he travels 1
- traveling i 1
- travelers 1
- and like a traveler 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
- Judges 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 12:4And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
- Job 34:8Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
- Psalms 139:3Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
- Jeremiah 9:2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
- Jeremiah 14:8O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
Hebrew dictionary
אָרַח arach · to journey
1) to wander, journey, go, keep company with 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to journey, go 1a2) (part.) 1a2a) wandering, wayfarer, journeying 1a3) (subst.) 1a3a) wanderer, wayfarer, traveller
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “journey” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
JOURNEY, noun
jur'ny. [Latin diurnus, dies.]
- The travel of a day.
- Travel by land to any distance and for any time, indefinitely; as a journey from London to Paris, or to Rome; a journey to visit a brother; a week's journey; we made two journeys to Philadelphia.
- Passage form one place to another; as a long journey from the upper regions.
- It may sometimes include a passing by water.
All definitions and other forms of “journey”
JOURNEY, verb intransitive
jur'ny. To travel form place to place; to pass from home to a distance.
- “Abram journeyed, going on still towards the south” Genesis 12:9
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.